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...tumor the size of a grapefruit was rapidly consuming her right knee and shinbone. Doctors had offered her two other options: amputation, or a bone fusion, which would render her stiff-legged for the rest of her life. She chose the rarely performed transplant. Last week Orthopedic Surgeon Richard Schmidt at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia announced that he had transplanted an entire knee -- bones, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and all -- from an accident victim into the leg of the young New Jersey woman. Schmidt predicts that Lazarchick will one day walk, climb stairs and maybe even...
...Lazarchick's case, the potential rewards seemed worth the gamble. "She was young, and we had a frozen graft that perfectly matched her joint," Schmidt says. The hospital's bone bank is one of several hundred nationwide. With prior consent, doctors routinely remove bones from patients who die suddenly, check them for infections such as hepatitis and AIDS, encase them in plastic and store them at -112 degreesF in freezers. Though the living tissue is killed by the extreme cold, the bone's structure survives. Thus, once surgeons implant the new graft, tissue rejection -- the unforgiving nemesis of most transplant...
...Sept. 30, Schmidt began the seven-hour operation by cutting a 2 1/2-foot long incision from the middle of his patient's thigh to more than halfway below her knee. He pulled back muscles and nerves, exposed the bones and the tumor; using a surgical saw, he then severed the femur four inches above the knee and the tibia, or shinbone, six inches below it. That done, he lifted out the old joint and tumor, trimmed the carefully chosen donor joint and inserted it into the twelve-inch gap. Using a metal rod and plate, the surgeon secured...
Last Wednesday the News quoted Yale President Benno C. Schmidt as saying "I have no comment. I am not a homosexual." The quote should have been, "I have no comment...
...hope that no one mistakes my intentions. I have no desire to ruin tradition or spoil anyone's fun. But President Schmidt has expressed to me his fears that the recent turbulence over the Supreme Court is not only wreaking havoc on the stock market and consequently the endowment, but is also scaring away alumni donators in droves. Further lewd conduct, we fear, will only discourage even more donations. Let's make a good impression on Harvard and our old timers. Keep your clothes on for a change, Saybrook. The Yale Police Department November...